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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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